PlayStation Aim is Sony’s best VR controller – now it just needs games

Just like more than half of PlayStation VR’s 2 million users, I arrived late to the PSVR party, but waiting until last year meant that the platform had a robust library of games at reasonable prices. One of the games I missed was Farpoint, the mid-2017 first-person shooter that showcased Sony’s PlayStation VR Aim — a deliberately non-threatening wireless gun controller.

PlayStation VR Aim turns out to be a bigger step forward for VR controllers than Farpoint was for FPS games. Up until recently, I played PSVR titles with either a DualShock 4 or twin PlayStation Moves, each maligned by PC VR fans for falling short of Oculus’s Touch controllers and Valve’s perennially upcoming Knuckles. But I wanted to test PSVR Aim because unlike the DualShock 4 and Move controllers, Sony thoroughly developed this as a VR control solution, and it managed to fold 100 percent of the control options needed for FPS gaming into a novel design.